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Offcuts, I think the increased number of bags is down to the renewed flush of enthusiasm from O2 as they added several hundred bags at a time, a few times during the month. Amazing!!

I don’t think the reduction in price has had time to trickle through and affect bag production yet – even if it’s a factor.

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….and I make it a total of 2563 bags made in March, but don’t stone me if I’m wrong, as I had to write them down and add them up in my head.

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You’re welcome Offcuts. 😀 I’m pleased that you find it interesting – and encouraging! I’m off to do a whole lot of maths now…..

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Welcome and well done, Sewing2Survive! 😀

We always enjoy looking at pictures of morsbags. Is your first one a keeper or do you aim to give it away?

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Your event in June sounds wonderful, Cathapple! I’m looking forward to the photos already 😀

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We’ve been having a bit of a fight with a new computer that didn’t recognise an old camera, but finally have managed to upload some more bitsa bag photos.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/28356801@N08/16360500913/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/28356801@N08/16793135750/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/28356801@N08/16793136500/

At last the heap of scraps is going down!! 😀

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Once upon a time I had acres of chalet curtains, but quite a lot was really faded and tatty. I have another design that I bought four whole rolls of and there’s still some left unused, to be made up at some time.

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Thank you Krisaby! 😀 I have some more bitsas to photograph tomorrow when we have some daylight.

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“I spot a piece of Royal elephant!”

You do, indeed, Pol!! In fact you can spot two 😀 There’s one more piece about the same size left, to be incorporated into another bitsa.

I don’t normally line them Sazzie. Frank has been known to, if he’s joining fabrics edge to edge, which he does if the pieces are only just big enough. I use a felled seam, which is very like the more easily looked up flat-felled seam. A felled seam has two lines of stitching, flat-felled has three. I reckon two are enough for a bag, usually.

I do it like this –
http://www.diceyhome.free-online.co.uk/KatePages/Learning/Seams/seam_types.htm
(scroll down to the third type of seam) but I arrange the edges of the fabric so that the lower one sticks out a little bit beyond the upper one, rather than trimming it. Then I wrap the bigger one round the smaller one and sew again.

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Interesting fabric – looks like a 1930’s bus queue – with some of the queuers having conversations. Makes a lovely bag – keep it!! 😀

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😀

Thanks for the hint Mr Bo Jangles!

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😀 Thank you all! I’ve made another couple of bitsas this evening, but not with so many bits.

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Frank is the master of the truly random bitsa, I sew the pieces into strips then join them, widthways. He lays out the pieces on the floor and starts by joining the smallest elements and works his way up.

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Whoops, double post!! My finger bounced 😕

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That’s kind of you Pol, but I don’t think my stitching would stand up to scrutiny – wobbly, but strong is fine by me! I think we’ll keep the bag above, but I made a couple more this (rainy) afternoon. Both use bigger pieces than the first one of this batch.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/28356801@N08/16324712474/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/28356801@N08/16759651320/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/28356801@N08/16946136831/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/28356801@N08/16327038163/

It’s going to be hard to give these to people I don’t know! 😀

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